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From: (Everett M. Greene)
Subject: Re: Need for a six degrees program
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:12:16 PST
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(Steve Hayes) writes:
[snip]
> I was responding to a need expressed here for a program that would record
> non-biological relationships, such as adoption, same-sex marrages, etc, in a
> more structured way than putting them into "notes".
>
> That means putting people into the database as persons, rather than just a
> note appending them to other persons.
>
> My request is for that kind of approach to be widened to include friends,
> friends of friends, friends of relations, relations of friends and other
> relationships (boss, co-workers, teachers, godparents, marriage witnesses
> etc).
[snip]
Genealogy is a subset of history. You seem to want a history
data base which includes genealogical information, an admirable
objective, but how practical is it?
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